The great deceivers: The forces of darkness are trying to distract us from real health care reform !

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The great deceivers: The forces of darkness are trying to distract us from real health care reform
Healthcare Policy

by Jack Lessenberry | September 23, 2009 - 4:19pm

There was once a major league baseball player named Rube Waddell, who may well have been the best pitcher there ever was. He set major league records for shutouts, strikeouts, you name it.

Unfortunately, he had one little problem. He was easily distracted. As in, attention-deficit disorder to the max. He more than once left the dugout when fire engines came running by, to go chasing after them. Opponents soon found out they could throw him off his game by having someone hold up shiny objects or puppies.

He forgot how many women he had married and was constantly getting hitched to new ones. His contract had to spell out that he could not eat crackers in bed. He could not, in short, concentrate on anything, or be managed. Soon, his baseball career was over.

He went on to wrestle alligators for a living. What does this have to do with anything? Simple. Those who are opposed to health care reform hope the American people are just like Rube Waddell. They hope you are easily distracted, that their constant barrage of lies causes you to hesitate and not demand that Congress pass President Obama's sensible and sound health care plan.

They want their mammoth profits to keep rolling in. They want to confuse you, so you allow them to keep screwing you. They did it to you the last time someone tried to reform health care, in 1993-94, and they are doing everything they can to do it to you again.

So they are lying, lying, lying, figuring that if they throw enough mud, some of it will stick. True, President Obama's Democrats have sizable majorities in both the House and Senate. But the forces of greed have vast pots of money, which they are only all too happy to use to try to tempt your representatives into doing the wrong thing. They will buy off enough of them, too, to win — unless you keep the pressure up, telling your congressmen and senators regardless of party that you want them to pass President Obama's plan.

Pass it, that is, and keep the "public option." Some of the forces of greed know that they are likely going to have to live with some health care bill. If that's the case, they want one that is as weak as possible. That's why all the lies. Here's the truth:

The President is not proposing a "government-run health care plan." What he essentially wants to do is require everyone to have basic health care insurance. Most would do so through private insurers, but a public option would also be available.

Besides that, he wants to make it illegal for insurance companies to deny people health insurance because of a "pre-existing condition." The working poor would have more protection.

Businesses would be strongly encouraged to offer basic health care, but many of the smallest firms would be exempt.

What slowed this bill for a good while was, in part, a good faith on the part of the president to try to work with Republicans. If they had better ideas, he indicated he was more than willing to listen.

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[opihimoimoi]

1. Big Pharma and Minions at work to decieve the masses...evil assholes.

[andym]

2. Makes a good point

Corporate influence goes way beyond direct manipulation of congress.

Corporate influence NEEDS the public on their side to create a permissive environment for their preferred policies. We need to work hard to diminish the commonly accepted ideas of an expensive, inefficient, inflexible government in order to help weaken corporate influence.